Random Articles
A November to Remember? A great spiritual awakening, more than political?
(Copyright 2022) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “Prepare ye the way of the Lord.” – Isaiah I DON’T KNOW if we’ll live to see the Second Coming, but I do know that America is in deep doo-doo, and is in dire need of another Great Awakening. I hope to live to see that one. Maybe it will begin this November. From Wikipedia: Great Awakening refers to a number of periods of religious revival in American Christian history. Historians and theologians identify three, or sometimes four, waves of increased religious enthusiasm between the early 18th century and the late 20th century. Each of […]
Do you feel safer than you did in the 1950s?
(Copyright) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan) “We are safer now than we were in the fifties.” – lady on a Facebook thread DON’T START WITH ME, MA’AM. I can count about a dozen neighbors and brethren who have been murdered in recent decades, and I’ve lived in the country almost all my life. Jefferson County, Wisconsin didn’t have one homicide in the decade of the 50s. Didn’t you hear about 55 people getting shot in Chicago alone over Labor Day, ma’am? No one is saying that the olden days were perfect, but there are factual statistics on divorce, births out of wedlock, […]
Isn’t the term “Government School” more meaningful and truthful than the term “Public School”?
(Copyright) by Jeffrey Caldwell (Arkansas) I’m currently reading a book that is chock-full of great quotes and thoughtful passages I’d love for a lot of people to be exposed to. This snippet is not necessarily the most compelling, but merely the latest one I’ve come across … please correct me if I ever employ the term “public school” again! If the government’s education system–like so much of what the federal bureaucracy touches–is such a disaster, then why do we turn our children over to it for their entire youths? Lots of reasons, starting with the name–“public school.” They are government schools, […]
Any Church Is Better Than No Church
by Nathaniel Burson (Big Sandy, Texas) “But… you’ve GOT to go to church somewhere!” Everyone in the world, regardless of their religion, knows without question that the one thing most important in life is to go to church. This is the one thing that all religions agree upon; going to church, synagogue, temple, or mosque is the fundamental sign of a believer. Sure, they all disagree on which day, what time, how long, and what to do when you get there… but as long as you GO, the rest doesn’t matter much. Most people don’t even care what church you go to – but you […]